PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, EPTE ER 28,1967 PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, SEPTE1~IIBER 28. 1967 cinema Eastern European Films Shine at Festival; Slavic Cinema Leads Modern Renaissance EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a three-part series on the 1967 New York Film Festi- val and Andy Warhol. BY ANDREW LUGG NEW YORK - A number of films by young Czech directors, notably Milos Forman, generated a great deal of excitement at last year's New York Film Festival. In these films, particularly in Forman's "Loves of a Blonde," we witnessed a type of East Euro- peani cinema that differed from the propagandistic war films that we had seen up to that time. Even the wax films, themselves, (think of "Shop on Main Street") had no "drum-beating" and in- stead investigated the intricacies and incongruities of war. This was no flash in the pan, since there has been a festival in New York of some 20 modern Czech films that proved this point. At the 1967 Festival we see that it is not just Czechoslovakia, among the East European coun- tries, that is experiencing a ren- aissance in film production. This year two Yugoslav films and two by a young Polish direc- tor, Jerzy Skolimowski, have al- ready been screened and there is still a Russian and a Hungarian film to come. Skolimowski's "Barrier" typifies the new direction of East Euro- pean films, and (with a little luck) it should soon be on our screens here. Skolimowski deals with the greys of Polish youth. The real- ity he depicts is in no way dog- matic; it is touched only briefly by ideology. He deals with the particular, suggesting, en route, that there are many other similar situations, but that these cannot be approached through universal slogans. Indeed, he uses slogans con- sistently, like newspaper headlines in a manner that parodies the presumptuousness of the old "uni- versals." In this respect, Skoli- mowski is like Jean Luc-Godard. On the other hand, it is just as easy to draw parallels between hisE work and that of Fellini. He usess baroque images, lace and all, in order to take his protagonistsc through a maze of dreams andI hallucinations. Skolimowski has redeemed the pretentiousness of Fellini's film language. He does this by incor- porating elements of the grotes-I que, by not taking himself too seriously, by including Godard-like anecdotes ("A woman was run over by a tram as she tried to walkf elegantly"), by knocking taboos (the hero says to two nuns, "You are not in bed yet, sisters." They reply, "We are waiting for ther Resurrection'") and by using aI Bunuelian Hallelujah Chorus. One of the slogans in the film is the "romance of our cynicalI generation" and this is what theI film is about. We might describeF the film as being a collection ofI beautiful images that hint at this slogan. A year ago I almost 'came outt and suggested that government censorship is better than box of- fice censorship. With the new, spate of government-subsidized East European films it seems ob- vious that government support of the arts is not only less damaging to the film art than is the tyran- ny of the box office but also is a positive asset to commercial pro- duction of films. Although "Barrier" is a low budget film, it is more expensive than anything that an independ- ent film-maker in this country could envision making. Govern- ment subsidy is a must. And after all it is easier to rebel against a few bureaucrats than it is to overcome the lethargy of some 200 million souls. I wish also to discuss Jean Rouch's "The LionsHunters," which had its first showing in America last Monday, although it was made in 1965. It is partic- ularly interesting in that it is a magnificent indictment of the techniques used in the film "Af- rica Addio" that was shown in Ann Arbor last summer. My colleague who reviewed "Af- rica Addio" did a good job of showing the dishonesty of direc- tor Jacopetti and his team. It is not surprising that two of this team are on trial in Italy for starting a massacre. Jacopetti put all his faith in blood and thunder, spectacle. He set his Africans up DIAL 5-6290 "A SUPERB FILM!" -Times 'SPEAKS CLEARLY AND TRULY" -Newsweek Magazine the BOUTING BROTHERS' the Poduction famiily QYWaY ~M*q HAYLEYMILLS JOHN MILLS HYWEBENNET MARJORIE RHODES FUL' #VMIANGERS-UZFRASER PAU"Beatle)McCARTNEY WRM IF CLES JNN COMER ______ _____ BILL(Al! e Aj TONS i TECHNICOLOR® NEXT "To Sir With Love" as savages and not very glorious ones at that. Rouch works at the other end of the spectrum. He has respect for the inhabitants who live above the Niger. He has the same sort of respect that Radin has in his "Primative Man as Philosopher." He knows that a film-maker needs to proceed as the anthropologist. He works with the people; he does not buy them off. He is aware that his mere pres- ence is likely to disturb the real- ity of the situation. Add to all this Rouch's hones- ty. There are no trick shots. Rouch shows the details, the prepara- tions and the actual hunt which culminates with the killing of the lion. We see nothing that the hunters do not see. Rouch always keeps at a respectable distance and in this way avoids "improv- ing" the description of the hunt that the hunters themselves get. There is none of the studied ele- gance of Disney in "Lion Hunt- ers," but this does not mean that the film is inelegant. The beauty of the film resides in its honest presentation. The camera jerks at a crucial moment because there is a human holding it and he is not completely prepared: the "mo- ment" had not been planned. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLE TIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no editor- ial responsibility. 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